* the coloffal 
164 
had come to Parts; in the} hope of reco- 
vering the more fpeedily the ates of 
their pay, directed the Prefecis to inform 
them, that without ce aing to cecupy it- 
felf in the amelioration of the condition 
of hele, prays, men, who had fought 1d 
the defence of their cabntry, it had de- 
fired fiat a would abftain, from. thele 
journies and 
u(lelels, as fe {ums due would ‘be for- 
warded to them as foon as pofible, and 
only at their relpective places of reidence. 
eT Aes) 
The conftitution of f the Cifalpine, or,as it 
is now termed, the Italian Repu lic, is at 
Jength dctioitively fettled, and Be napatte, in 
compliance wi th the, contemptible and aif 
grace ul folicita tiows of the Confulte has Con- 
dajiended to gratily their withes, by accept- 
ing the office of Prefident, or Supreme Di-. 
rector of the new]} -confituted States, whofe 
peluical force, and financial refources are 
completely at his devotion. He has been 
elected for tan years, ata falary ef 500,000 
livres per annum, and is indefinitely re- 
eligible to the exercife of his n.w fove- 
reignty » while his Italian fubjeéts ave ftill 
‘to be controaled bythe troops of France. 
Thus is the fate of the Cifalpine Republic 
determined,-and Bonaparte inverted with 
anew power, which, in the event of any 
* future commotion in the French capital, 
fecures-him a continuance of cminent pre- 
ponderance, The Duchy af Parma is to 
be annexed to the new Republic, and 
thofe of Genoaand Lucca, with the coun- 
try of Piedmont, it is highly probable, 
will fhare the fame fate, and thus will 
influence of France become 
firengthened by a formidable and confoli- 
dated Sytem of power. Bonaparte will 
gover in Italy by a Vic egerent, and it 
remains to be feen in what manner this 
watt acquiiition_ of influence to the Con- 
falar Thyone will be received by- the al- 
ready, jealous inhabitants of France. 
The Moniteur of the 31 of January 
eentains a very long detail of the preceed-- 
adgs of the Canfulta of the Cifaipine Re- 
public. -It, begins by ftating, that the 
Cifalpine Republic, defirous « a obtaining 
a definitive organization, mzde application 
for this parpole to the Fir Conlul, and 
requetie ed from the hand who had founded. 
it in the year 6, and reftoréed it two years 
after, that’ fup port which it had need of, 
iD orcer to ae ute itfelf into a body po- 
Ii tit. The Kirt Conkiily, | in cénfequ- nce 
of the wi th expreffed to him, was anxicus 
to cbiain, ail the. information which the 
Lifslpines. themfely es might have concern- 
eg ‘the interes of the! ir conutry ; and to 
tate of Public Afairs in Fe bratary 7, 1802. 
appli catic ABS which are WwW holly- 
[March 1, 
eee the views of the Firft Cenful, as. if 
well as to give him the sehen informas 
tion, . an “ext ‘vaordinary Coniulta of 459 
Members, cholen from the mof reipecta- 
ble Citizens of the Cifalpme Republic, 
was convokea by its Gavernment. 
Lyons was fixed upen as the place 
fitting, as being the moft convenient fer 
‘that Re} public as well as the Firft Conful, 
and Bo d:dinguifhed’ in its numerous 
relations with the Northern parts of Italy. 
The Minifer of Foreign Relations re- 
Paired to Lyons on the 2rft of December, 
and C. Marefcalchi, Deputy..of the Ci- 
falpine Republic to the French Govern- 
“ment, bece ming in-ihat quality the natu- - 
ral medium of the commupications be- 
tween the Minifter and the Cifalpine No-. ; 
_tables, prefented to him, in fuccefhien, 
thefe of the Milanefe, of the three eccle- 
faitical Jegations, of the couniries detached 
from the State of Venice, of the ci aewant 
Modenefe, the Novarefe, and the Valtel- 
line. 
tended’ with the advantage of eft ablithing 
a mere intimate relation between the Mi. 
nifter and the Notables of each of the ter- 
ritorial divifions of the Cifalpine Republic. 
A Committee of thirty Members was 
charged: by the Confulta,. united for: the 
fir time in a gencral afiembly, to form 
Thefe partial conferences were at- 
double lifts of candidates to fill the differ-_ 
ent places, in order that they might indi-— 
cate to the Firft Conful thofe men recom- 
mended to them by the public opinion. © 
‘© The Committee of Thirty, after 
having difcharged, with all peflible deli- 
beration, the duty impofed upon it, of 
preparing a choice of fubje&ts capable of | 
making a part of the Government of the 
Republic, now fubmits to you (to the 
Firft Conful of- France) the refult of its. 
reficétions upon the choice of Firft Magif- 
trate, &c,” 
On the 26th of January the Firtt Conful, 
accompani ied by the Minifter for Foreign 
Affairs, and the Miniter of the Interior, — 
four Counfellors of State, twenty Prefeéts, - 
bis feveral General Oficers, attended 
be fitting of the Cifalpine Confulta, and 
‘ae Ouniced, 
fo\lowing purport:—“ The Cifalpine Re- 
public has already experienced many vi- 
ciffitudes. The firlt efforts made to confti- 
tute ithave badly fucceeded; invaded 
by hoftile armies, its exiftence feemed no 
in Italran, a fpeech to the — 
nee 
longer probable, when the French people, — 
a fecond time, drove, by force of arms, — 
‘The 
\your enemies from your territory. 
protestion of France has prevailed—you 
have been recognized at Luneville. 
The- ‘fpeech ‘of the Firft Conful, inter - 
rppted 
